Word: iran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iran's personable Shah publicly proclaimed last week that formation of an "Aryan Confederation"*composed of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan is "under careful study." Comparing the proposed confederation to the anti-Soviet Baghdad Pact, the Shah declared: "I am proud that for the first time Persian-speaking nations are forming such a unity-which is aimed at defending their territories against aggression." Since there are only two big powers left in the world, he added, Iran had to join one or the other out of self-defense. Iran's clear choice...
Last January Lazard Freres & Co. and Chase International Investment Corp. sent a mission to Iran to set up a financial center to provide credits for investors. In southwestern Iran, the government authorized the U.S. Development and Resources Corp. founded by former TVA Chiefs David Lilienthal and Gordon Clapp, to work on plans for a $5 million dam, a 375,000-acre irrigation project, a sugar mill and refinery, Iran's first major electric transmission line, and a gas pipeline from the Agha Jari oilfield...
...Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of the engineering and construction firm of Electric Bond and Share Co., and the investment firm of Allen & Co.-announced that they were combining resources and talents in the Kerman Development Corp., to study the possible development of 50,000 promising square miles of Iran's mountainous south central area...
...Karachi's Frere Gardens, a group of prominent citizens gathered to do honor to Prime Minister Malik Firoz Khan Noon, a man given to unexpected remarks. They were not disappointed. Jovial Prime Minister Noon, 65, suddenly declared: "Afghanistan and Iran are our closest neighbors, and we all are Moslem brethren. If they desire to confederate with us, I, for my part, am prepared...
Pakistan's strongman President Iskander Mirza denied that he had ever discussed federation with other nations. In Teheran. Premier Manouchehr Eghbal was more careful: "Iran has no intention of participating in a federation with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the immediate future." Radio Kabul made its answer clear by beating the drum again for an independent "Pakhtoonistan," to include a large slice of West Pakistan...